Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale Daily DevotionalSample

El-hayya What are you all about? If pressed to answer this question in a single sentence, or with a single word, what would you say? For David, who we believe to be the author of Psalm 42, his answer was found in the form of a name: El-hayya, which means "God of my life." With that one word, that one divine name, David makes a powerful statement about what he was all about. For David, there was no compartmentalization. He didn't clock in and out with the Lord. Everything he had anything to do with-his body, his soul, his spirit, his exploits, his ambitions, his existence, his life-absolutely all of it was wrapped up in God. There's a beautiful abandonment in this. There's something so radically right about God being one's all in all. We see a parallel picture of this in the New Testament when Peter, pressed with the decision to follow or skip out on Jesus, expressed this same spirit by saying, "Who else is there to go to?" (John 6:68). In other words, Peter was proclaiming that his life was all about Jesus, and that he had come to know him as El-hayya. For all his faults, we can't fault Peter in this. In fact, we need to follow his example, and David's, in this area. If we don't know God as El-hayya, as the God of our entire life, then we really don't know Him at all. God is best known in absolute terms, when we're "all in" with Him. We can't clock in and clock out with Him, or put Him on hold or TiVo our time with Him. El-hayya doesn't want that. He wants all of us. He wants to be the God of our life. And deep down in the deepest part of our spiritual being, so do we. If we don't know God as El-hayya, as the God of our entire life, then we really don't know Him at all. Think about it... What does this passage reveal to me about God? What does this passage reveal to me about myself? Based on this, what changes do I need to make? What is my prayer for today?